NOAA scientists are cleared of misuse of data - yet another result which certain people will refuse to accept. Get ready for claims of conspiracy, and calls for an inquiry into the inquiry ..... And, indeed, lo and behold, WUWT claims that Inspector General Finds “NOAA Climategate Emails Warrant Further Investigation”. Except that's not true. What Wattsy has done is copy selective misquotes from the report highlighted by Senator Inhofe in his response here. But Inhofe clearly doesn't understand the past participle! The 'further investigation' has already been carried out, prior to the release of the Report. D'oh! Still, when you're in a deep shitty hole, keep on digging and hope no-one sees you. Anyway, I hereby dub this 'Past Participle-gate'.

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